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] Date Posted: 13:08:25 11/04/04 Thu In reply to: Jim (Canada) 's message, "I'm fed up with the British" on 01:51:54 11/04/04 Thu Britain is a very stupid place. Neighbours always quarrel. Overall the component nations of GB get on very well. This is only a minor internet forum, not the voice of a nation (yet!) If some idiots from Quebec (or seperatist Alberta for all that matter) were to post here regularly short, snide comments about Anglo-Canada I would feel about Canada exactly the way you do now about GB. I would rather hope that you would prefer to debate it out with these people were they to visit this forum. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 21:54:55 11/05/04 Fri I have achieved exactly what I set out to do with this post. I confess to you all that I did not mean a single word that I said about the Brits being not worth it. I wanted to do something radical that would jumpstart all the Brits into defending their country and showing unity and pride. It worked!!! My real feelings for Britain are one of love, respect and pride - parliamentary government, constitutional monarchy, common law - all the things that Canada has benefitted from. After all, my background is English. I have worked hard for this FC cause and I am not backing out now. I always have a wonderful time when I go and visit the UK. I am a stanuch monarchist and I am proud of all of our British institutions and our heritage. I think I made that clear before. However, I still feel that all this nationalism in Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, etc. is opening up old wounds that should have died a long time ago. I am very aware that most of the British people are not involved in this lunatic fringe and that the EU is perpetrating a lot of it. Canada has its fair share of nationalism, primarily based on language. A new poll taken in Quebec yesterday showed 49% support for independence in that province. Anyway, I apologise sincerely if I offended anyone here, but I wanted to get British people here defending their country and showing pride in it and denouncing the regionalist separatists. My real feelings for Britain have never changed - you are still our mother country and I will always be proud of the ties - after all, they built my country. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> Subject: Oh don't blame the EU for God's sake! | |
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Author: Curnoack [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 22:00:24 11/05/04 Fri "I am very aware that most of the British people are not involved in this lunatic fringe and that the EU is perpetrating a lot of it." Actually as Chic McGregor pointed out a large number of Scottish people want independence. The EU have NOTHING to do with this. It predates the EU by decades. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Curnoack [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 22:04:14 11/05/04 Fri The SNP and Plaid Cymru both have European policies that have COST them votes. Other things cause independence movements. Home rule for Scotland, Wales and Ireland was discussed in the 1860s Westminster, and before and since. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> Subject: Yes and a large number of Scottish people don't want independence too | |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 22:11:57 11/05/04 Fri [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> Subject: The difference being that one lot are supported by the media and government 24/7 and the other isn't | |
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Author: Curnoack [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 22:18:49 11/05/04 Fri [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Trixta (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 04:56:28 11/06/04 Sat Okay, you got me, Jim. You hit the chord that got me responding before I'd read this posting. Well done. Maybe the UK needs a little more of that sort of prodding from our enlightened friends - though if we weren't whinging about each other we'd probably all die of boredom. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |